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6 September 2022

Performance Appraisals

Whether you love them or loathe them, there is still a good case to be had for having regular performance appraisals with your team. An effective performance appraisal process can help you acknowledge high achievers, monitor performance, and allow your team to understand how their work contributes to the business they work for. Ideally, this will result in you the employer, developing a positive culture while helping to build your employees confidence and competencies.

2 August 2022

Are you prepared?

Our HealthyPractice team (Shaun, Chris, Fiona, Bryce, and Bonnie) is part of the wider ‘business@mas’ team which also provides business insurance, key person cover, KiwiSaver for practice employees and other products and services. Some of our subscribers may have already had contact with the MAS Business insurance team, often prior to the renewal of their Business Risk insurance policy. It’s great to have this team of specialists to look after your business needs, and they can be directly contacted on businessinsurance@mas.co.nz

5 July 2022

Employment arrangements

We are delighted to welcome Bonnie Mitchell to the HealthyPractice team. Bonnie joined us on 20 June and is looking forward to answering your calls and emails. Bonnie comes to us with a strong background in all areas of human resources and will be developing her website content management skills. This month we are looking at the different types of employment arrangements. It is a legislative requirement that all employees have a written employment agreement and there are certain clauses that must be included in it. Our sample templates are regularly updated in line with legislation changes and precedents set by case law – we recommend you download a fresh version every time you complete a new agreement.

8 June 2022

Staff performance

The last two and a half years have been very busy and difficult for all practices; change has been constant, you have faced locked downs and restrictions on practising, as well as new ways of delivering services. On top of that, the way we live and interact with family and friends has been turned upside down in many cases. We are hearing in our conversations with subscribers how tired they and their staff are. And we are seeing an increase in calls to our HealthyPractice team that describe exhaustion and lack of resilience in team members.

3 May 2022

A week in the life of the HealthyPractice team.

Welcome to our newsletter for May. This month we thought we’d give you an insight into a week in the life of the HealthyPractice team.

5 April 2022

Recruitment in the Covid age

Welcome to our April newsletter. This month we touch on non-Government vaccine mandates and look at how to undertake a recruitment process in the Covid age.